I have a Mac Mini with OS X Lion 10.7.5. I want to use some software (Time Machine?) to back-up all of my gmail
emails going back to 2006 on a Seagate back-up drive. I installed Time Machine, and it backed-up everything but
gmail e-mails. Can somebody give me help.
Mac Mini OX X Lion 10.7.5
Time Machine is for backing up files on a local drive. If your gmail emails are local on your HD they are being backed up. But if they are on a Gmail server this is not a function of Time Machine.
Ok, thank you. Can you recommend a program that will back-up emails directly from gmail?
Ok, I understand. Thank you. Can you recommend software that will back-up gmail files from the gmail server, or
do I have to handle them individually?
What functionality are you hoping to achieve with this?
As Jimmy said if they are on your Mac then Time Machine has backed them up already.
Functionally I want to be able to store copies of emails with important information on the back-up drive separate from gmail, rather than copy their contents individually. Once copies are safe and accessible, I can put the originals in the Trash and free up my gmail Inbox. I tried to drag an original email to the back-up drive, and that doesn't seem to work. It's probably going to be tedious anyway, but I had a situation recently where my numerous Inbox emails were arbitrarily moved to the Trash folder, then deleted from Trash. Fortunately, gmail has an options whereby one can retrieve deleted emails.
I want to use Time Machine to back-up all gmail emails to a Seagate or Lacie drive.drive.
